Like Google, Karma is a b*tch that hates Mediocrity

22. January, 2012 by Gabriel Machuret Internet Marketing 1 comment

When you work online it seems people forget that everything you do, get’s recorded.

Where?

Recorder somewhere, recorder in a place where “life” is just waiting to pull that “article” “blog comment’ “link” or “old email” where you cut corners.

I know about it, because when I started to make money online, I was playing to game of “quick bucks”, thin sites… or creating sites that didn’t made a dam different to anyone out there….

And until now, if you Google my name, you will find stupid articles where I used to praise “the value of X coffee maker vs Y coffee maker” trying to pull some cents from affiliate marketing.

THIS IS KIND OF AMAZING ARTICLES I WROTE MYSELF TRYING TO PROMOTE MY THIN AFFILIATE SITES!

Did I failed?

You bet I failed.

I failed like the big buys. I did everything I was told to do: I created shit sites, with poor content, expecting to get 100 daily visitors to my site and hopefully I could pull 1 dollar per site per day and in that way… build a huge network.

Sounds familiar?

The important point is that I didn’t failed in an economical point of view….

You see, 2 years ago my snow holidays with the family was paid with the profits of “info products’ … but while I was skying with my kids, I quickly realized that that infoproducts I was promoting… deep inside where crap.

So where is the problem?

From a profit point of view, no problem really, from a lifestyle point of view, the idea of being involved with mediocrity created an issue.

You see, I don’t care about working in businesses where the idea, from a financial point could fail…. but businesses where the main purpose is just to generate profit regardless of the end result, became a serious problem.

I lost sleep.

I wanted to be able to walk out the street and meet my proud and happy customers …. (but clearly you never meet happy info product buyer customers)

You see, I didn’t want to know as the “guy with a hemorrhoid cure ebook” site.

So why KARMA it’s a Bitch?

Because in the same way an article can come back to hunt you down, Google can do the same thing with a link, with a rough outsourcer, with a dodgy spam tactic or with thin low level affiliate sites…. you name it.

What happened to all my affiliate sites?

i lost them all, with one single Google update. (Mayday update).

Unfair?

Not really… I was looking for it. I knew it was going to happen. I was creating cr*p with nice graphics. I never put one single effort in that sites and instead I build thin sites just waiting for a long-tail-traffic to click the buy now.

So why am I admitting this in public?

Hoping that anyone out there looking to cut cornet realize that cutting corners it’s usually the fastest way to building a limited business. A business that will be limited by it’s own weakness.

You see…

This week, someone that I criticized 2 years ago, for using Indian link builders to blast spam comments in WordPress… contact me asking me to “fix” his problems with Google.

The funny thing is that even when I pointed where his “link farm” problems relay and how his own team was guilty of Google penalizing and flagging his site, this amazing “business consultant” refused to admit…

“Yes, we deserved what we got”

Instead he offered to “pay to get this solved”

You see, you can’t “pay an SEO consultant” to fix Karma, especially when you still are not apologetic for your own actions.

The first step to fix your own dodgy link network is to realize in first place that, well… it’s dodgy.

To accept you have a problem.

The second step is to understand that quality needs to be the priority and that “using” the same team of link spammers, it’s not the “proper” way to go.

At the end, as I wrote in the title of this “rant’ … Karma, SEO, and/or Google Algorithm seems to hate mediocrity, especially when the creators of the of this mediocrity are so arrogant that even when they are penalized… they refused to accept that their own mediocrity put them in the bad Google-karma books.